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Mutations in FLNB cause boomerang dysplasia.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Jul 2005
Bicknell L S, Morgan T, Bonafé L, Wessels M W, Bialer M G, Willems P J, Cohn D H, Krakow D, Robertson S P
Abstract excerpt
Boomerang dysplasia (BD) is a perinatal lethal osteochondrodysplasia, characterised by absence or underossification of the limb bones and vertebrae. The BD phenotype is similar to a group of disorders including atelosteogenesis I, atelosteogenesis III, and dominantly inherited Larsen syndrome that we have recently shown to be associated with mutations in FLNB, the gene encoding the actin binding cytoskeletal...
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